Sunday, July 27, 2014

The Angelic Upstarts are one of my all time favourite punk bands. My brother had a copy of "Angel Dust" when we were kids that I listened to the grooves out of. When I found out they were coming to town I worked every angle I knew trying to get an interview. Even on the day of I still wasn't sure that the interview would happen. The Prowlers and AFA brought the upstarts here at the end of May this year and the promoter (Ewan) had told me when to show up to the club and wait around. he was a huge help in introducing us to Mensi and Mensi agreed to a sit down that was recorded. I was super nervous about meeting this singer that I have so much respect for and have held onto many of his lyrics so it was a dream to be able to ask him about songs that I had only ever wondered about. For the show I live mixed in songs from the Upstarts back catalogue that get asked about in the interview. Hope you enjoy this retrospective look at these fascist fighting oi boys from the north who dared to stand up to Thatcher and her tory vendetta to break the miners. ANGELIC UPSTARTS - I'm an Upstart (Warner Brothers)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - South Shields: Born and Bred (Insurgence)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - We gotta to get outta this place (Warner Brothers)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Kids in the Street (EMI)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Teenage Warning (Warner Brothers)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - England (EMI)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Liddle Towers (Warner Brothers)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Police Oppression (Warner Brothers)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - I Understand (EMI)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Machine Gun Kelly (Picasso)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Never 'ad Nothin' (Warner Brothers)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Two Million Voices (EMI)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - King Coal (Warner Brothers)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Heath's Lament (EMI)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Flames of Brixton (EMI)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Rude Boy (Picasso)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Joe Where are you know (Gas Music Limited)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Capital City (Warner Brothers)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Nazi BNPANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Student Power (Warner Brothers)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Guns for the Afghan Rebels (EMI)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Blood on the Terraces (Chameleon)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Soldier (EMI)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Still FightingWe have already said our thanks to Ewan Exall for stickhandling things at the gig, but we also want to thank Sylvain from the Prowlers for booking the Upstarts in the first place. And if it wasn't for the technical work of Lenora Taylor and Mike Gorman we would have had a crappier audio file which you can download here.

The Naughty Girls are form Montreal and the "Bad Habits" ep was released b the School Jerks on their label Bad Vibrations. Their newest recording which was done in 2012 was just reviewed in July's review section for MRR. You can download the recording from thier bandcamp page.

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Tonight's show started out with the piecing together of the studio 3 session of Skunx. Skunx are a local oi trio that reminds me a lot of Blitz in terms of guitar sound. The singer sings in English, Portuguese as in the Dose Brutal cover and Spanish in their new song "Delincuente Adolescente", which is great to hear. Below is the how we heard the interview and session mixed together also including a couple of songs on their bandcamp page.SKUNX - Destiny (CIUT)SKUNX - Interview (CIUT)SKUNX - Dose Brutal (CIUT) SKUNX - Interview (CIUT)SKUNX - No Future (CIUT)SKUNX - Interview (CIUT)SKUNX - Call Girl Tramp (Self-Released) SKUNX - Interview (CIUT)SKUNX - Terrorist Attack (CIUT) SKUNX - Interview (CIUT)SKUNX - Law and Order (CIUT) SKUNX - Interview (CIUT)SKUNX - Delincuente Adolescente (CIUT) SKUNX - Interview (CIUT)SKUNX - Youth (CIUT) SKUNX - Interview (CIUT)SKUNX - Chaos (CIUT) 4-SKINS - Chaos (Captain Oi) SKUNX - Interview (CIUT)SKUNX - Public Disgrace (CIUT) SKUNX - Interview (CIUT)SKUNX - Riot (Oi! the Nische) Gio, the singer from Skunx, is a fan of futebol and music from South America. Given that Argentina played in the final, the first two bands are from the country tha is the runner up in the tournament. But this set also has bands from the host country (Brazil) and some bands from other countries in the tournament (Uruguay) and Venezualan.COMANDO SUICIDA - Y ya o ve (Pure Impact / Crowbar)ALERTA ROJA - Situacion Limite (Pinhead)DOSE BRUTAL - Vadia (Radykaos)CARBONARIO - Operario BrasileiroLOS INVASORES - Dr. DemetrioLA SEGURIDAD NACIONAL - Oi Tudo (ST2 Music)OHLO SECO - Nada (ST2 Music)The last two bands appear come from the audio for a documentary titled "Botinada - The origin of Punk in Brazil. Gio shared a link to an upload of the documentary with some English subtitles.

We had a set for Germany, but we ran out of time but the recent Stage Bottles single represented the international spirit of the tournament. Urban Blight covered Upright Citizens in Studio 3 so here it is again. Beav was just in town this weekend.STAGE BOTTLES - One World One CrewURBAN BLIGHT - Bombs of Peace (CIUT)

Tonight's demo feature is a band from France that I read about in the June issue of MRR. In the Skunx interview Gio tolsd a story about the Hired Goons likening the Skunx sound to French oi. We just happened to read about a new french oi band so we thought it dovetailed the show nicely. Here is a review from the June issue of MRR. The demo can be downloaded at http://syndrome81.bandcamp.com/.SYNDROME 81 - Une Vie Pour Rien (Self-Released)SYNDROME 81 - Brest la grise (Self-Released)SYNDROME 81 - Recourance (Self-Released)

This amazing
zine was put together by someone locally and was inspired by their love for Raymond
Pettibon artwork. In an interview we did with the author this love developed at
an early age reading some of Pettibon’s early zines. As the author started collecting
Pettibon flyers the author found that a lot of collectors didn’t share the same
curiosity for meaning behind the artwork. All the artwork found in this zine
has been collected by the author and purchased. He has made a special
distinction between original flyers and copies, so only original pieces have
been commented on. Anyway, the author has applied a sophisticated art analysis
to Pettibon’s artwork with a look at the
evolution in stages compared through Black Flag’s history. He points out that Pettibon
never drew artwork for Black Flag. It was used by Black Flag so his artwork
should be looked at on it’s own. This is a book that the author wished was
around when he was a kid and has been pulled together through correspondence
with the Charles Dukowski and other sources listed inside. Here is a PDF download
of Art Through Intimidation.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

The last studio 3 session we had a tornado touch down. Today we had two crazy rain storms. Must be something about recording punk bands in our broadcast studio that brings out the worst in the weather. Skunx were scheduled for the end of July, but Ian and Aldo will be away and the Delinquents want to wait til their recording is ready for release. Bennett informed me that Gio was planning on moving back home and that the Skunx were probably going to disband and that this was going to happen next month so we really wanted to get them into the studio. They agreed to fill in at the last minute. Israel was the first one at Hart House. He is really into rockabilly and he told me about how he had a rockabilly band that Gio played in. In exchange Gio played bass in Skunx. It's a symbiotic relationship.

The session started late because Bennett had to get everything from the rehearsal space to the station which is the basement of Israel's girlfriend's rockabilly clothing shop. It's a pretty rad shop. We checked it out after the interview. Our time was also eaten up by trying to sift through the equipment thrown into the room after the rush to get the remote broadcast equipment into the equipment studio. Ian was able to find some effects and compressors, which was what Gio was looking for to get an echo effect on his vocals. By the time we had the sound we had to rip through a set which included the following songs:

Saturday, July 5, 2014

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SHOW LISTINGS

THURSDAY MARCH 15th @ Coalition T.O.

KING CANS

RECKLESS UPSTARTS

STREETLIGHT SAINTS

BARE BONES

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THURSDAY MARCH 29th @ Faith/Void

PROM NITE

PUCUMBER

RETIRED

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THURSDAY APRIL 12th @ Lee's Palace

JOHN COOPER CLARKE

SON OF DAVE

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FRIDAY APRIL 27th @ the Pheonix Theatre

PRLJAVO KAZALIŠTE (from Croatia)

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SUNDAY MAY 13th @ Lee's Palace

POWER TRIP

SHEER MAG

FURY

RED DEATH

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WEDNESDAY MAY 16th @ the Velvet Underground

THE MELVINS

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SATURDAY MAY 26th @ the Velvet Underground

INTEGRITY

BLOODLET

XIBALBA

LONGEST WAR

TOMB MOLD

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WEDNESDAY JUNE 13th @ the Velvet Underground

GBH

PINATA PROTEST

DIRTYWORK

If there is a show that you know about that isn't on this list, please forward it to us at equalizingxdistort@gmail.com.